Kenichi Quotes & Sayings

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy. — Kenichi Ohmae

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed. — Kenichi Fukui

In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous. — Kenichi Ohmae

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth. — Kenichi Fukui

I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions. — Kenichi Fukui

The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power — Kenichi Ohmae

So as you can see, counters don't work on us. Actually it's more like he's too lazy to move." ~Kenichi Okamura & Kensuke Fukui — Tadatoshi Fujimaki

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be encouraged to do original work.
... Industry is more likely to put its research effort into its daily business. It is very difficult for it to become involved in pure chemistry. There is a need to encourage long-range research, even if we don't know its goal and if its application is unknown. — Kenichi Fukui

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams. — Kenichi Fukui

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. — Kenichi Fukui

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away. — Kenichi Ohmae

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State — Kenichi Ohmae

Anyone as stupidly brave as Atsumori is not going to understand Kenichi

I was not stupid. Odds were that I would have drowned; I was in full armor. — Wen Spencer

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. — Kenichi Fukui

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors. — Kenichi Ohmae

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature. — Kenichi Ohmae

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally. — Kenichi Ohmae

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. — Kenichi Fukui

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking — Kenichi Ohmae

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? — Kenichi Ohmae

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. — Kenichi Fukui

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research. — Kenichi Fukui

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible. — Kenichi Ohmae

As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from them. — Kenichi Fukui